Bloomsbury USA Childrens
On sale:
January 2009
Price:
$6.99
Format:
Paperback
Size:
5.0625 x 7.75 in
Pages:
272 pp
Ages:
10-14
Grades:
4-8
ISBN-13: 9781599903262
ISBN-10: 1599903261
The prequel to the highly successful Tales of the Frog Princess--E.D. Baker takes her trademark humor and creativity to give the Tales some history…
Grassina, Emma's wonderful, magical aunt, is herself a teen in this prequel to the Frog Princess books. She and her sister, Chartreuse (Emma's irritating mother from the other books) are vying to see who will get the family's inherited magical skills as they navigate the intricacies of being a princess in a magical kingdoma bevy of mostly terrible would-be suitors, a father who becomes a ghost, a mother who changes from a stressed, but semi-normal human to a selfish witch, and the arrival of some terrible werewolves. When Grassina finds and falls in love with a wizard-in-training, Haywood, and invokes the wrath of her sister, it is the werewolves, who despite their evil ways, bring about Grassina's change from mortal princess to Green Witch powers. Every bit as funny and satisfying as the other stories!©2010 Bloomsbury
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